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First, talk to a trained professional. https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline might help. No matter how permanent they feel, feelings are temporary. The short-circuit c…

Tesla's autopilot page ( https://www.tesla.com/autopilot ) says (as of today): Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3,…

Non-paywalled stories: http://spacenews.com/indias-pslv-launches-7-satellites-in-a-... http://www.firstpost.com/india/isro-successfully-launches-ps...

Still can't develop apps for iPad Pro on an iPad Pro.

Great, we'll have 1/3 less traffic and more housing space soon!

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/386/

Brazil may be shooting themselves in the foot -- they're trying to create an innovation industry around Sao Paulo and these things will just create a chilling effect that chases a …

Try search from Google, then open resulting link in a private / incognito window.

The article is comparing median income (of all residents) to prices that home-owners pay which is pretty much apples to oranges. Fewer people are buying houses in the Bay Area righ…

The Insight Meditation Center has a ton of introductory talks and guided meditations available for free: http://audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/ for example. All you need is a t…

...anybody who thinks that the above is (a) legible (b) efficient (even with the magical compiler support) (c) particularly safe is just incompetent If that isn't a criticism of th…

Bookings are 10B, not revenue -- that's what the passengers pay; stated revenue from the doc was 2B, which is what Uber keeps (rest goes to drivers). But your larger point is well-…

I worked (and studied) in Singapore for a while. As an engineer for a tech company, you get paid very little compared to cost of living. In my graduating class, most EE+CS folks I …

C&H is about imagination, not loneliness. Imagination is an intrinsic and essential part of the human experience, especially in childhood, and to call it a 'coping mechanism' is co…

I think it's important to separate out two things -- the startup boom vs the housing boom. The startup boom in some sense has always been there. There is a bubble-like environment …

It seems the attack was on an ISP's DNS server rather than Google.

I think to learn C/C++ it's helpful to have a mindset of wanting to understand the machine rather than build code. It's of course great fun to use Python's built in maps etc (and C…

I think these articles are kind of missing the main point. I don't really care who buys the multi-million dollar houses since I'm never going to be in that market anyway. The issue…

Microsoft: Stop talking, start doing.

Computer Systems: A programmer's perspective Great look at under-the-hood of what happens when a program runs.

...just in case reading HN doesn't waste enough of your time.

US-based developer looking to move back to India here; but I'm sure there are enough software folks in India itself to make this an interesting discussion.

It actually takes a lot more to have a career in the sciences; the field is extremely competitive. More so than getting a job at Google or Facebook. I applied for a lot of computat…

This may also be an artifact that in terms of "intelligence" we have focused mostly on supervised learning as opposed to unsupervised learning; recent reversals in this trend have …